"My lord, I think the agreement you reached with the Feisabrun family for weapons and equipment in exchange for cattle and sheep is extremely unwise. From a strategic point of view, this is simply an act of capitalizing on the enemy..." Schwader, who had been holding back for two days, finally Unable to bear it any longer, he took the opportunity of having afternoon tea to express his opinion to Lorist.
Lorist took a piece of honey shortbread and put it into his mouth. After eating, he picked up the teacup and rinsed his mouth. He looked at Schwader with a half-smile.
Schwader blushed, and waited for a long time for Lorist to reply, he was a little anxious: "Teacher, tell me why you made this deal with the Feisabrun family, everyone said you were fascinated by Princess Sylvia To make such a decision..."
Lorist quickly turned his head to look. Luckily, Miss Tresty was still basking in the sun with the little baby on the grass. Although her maid, Winnie, had grown into a big girl, her childlike innocence remained intact, and she was teasing the little baby. Little feet, didn't hear what Schwader said just now.
"Come here, you brat." Lorist's face darkened, and he stretched out his hands to ruffle the hair of Schward, who was approaching, into a henhouse shape: "When you grow up, you will think about it with a strategic perspective, it's amazing ah… "
"Okay, sit down, it's time to teach you a lesson."
"Schward, please answer me a question first, what do you think of the Grand Duke Fessabrun and the Border Guards?" Lorist asked.
Schwader thought for a while and replied: "Teacher. Although the Grand Duke Fessabrun and his border guards have not confronted our family directly, no matter how you say it, he is a potential opponent of our family. If we want to If we attack the Kingdom of Iberia, they will become our enemies. Not only me, but many people think so."
"Kingdom of Iberia? Hehe. Schwader, you need to keep your eyes on the distance, don't always put it in front of your eyes. In my eyes, the Grand Duke Fesabrun and his border guards are not in my eyes at all. They are not worthy of it." Be our family's rival." Lorist was very arrogant at the moment.
"Teacher, why do you think so? The frontier regiment under Grand Duke Feisabrun has 78,000 elite soldiers, which is almost equal to the total number of our Norton family's armed forces, and after completing the arms and equipment transaction with our family The combat power has increased greatly, you can't take it lightly!" Shi Huade quickly persuaded.
"Hehe..." Lorist laughed, "Schward, tell me why the Grand Duke Fesabrunn gave up his post as Regent of the Kingdom of Iberia and went back to his hometown, the Eastern Wilderness Province?"
"That's because your lord has arranged for him in the capital, and now the situation in the Kingdom of Iberia is in a mess. Grand Duke Feisabrun has no choice but to give up..." Schwader replied after thinking.
Lorist shook his head: "You are wrong, Schwader. In the face of strength, no matter how much conspiracy and trickery is, it is a small trick that cannot be put on the table. In fact, if the Grand Duke Fessabrunn is ruthless, he can clean up He has the strength to go through the nobles of the entire kingdom and gather them into his own support. As long as the order of the kingdom is rectified and production resumes, then within five years, the Kingdom of Iberia will be reborn, not as it is now In such a state of chaos, the ruin of the country is at hand."
"But Grand Duke Feisabrun gave up, because it was a road of no return. Either he succeeded, or the entire Feisabrun family was buried with him. Therefore, he was afraid. He would rather give up the kingdom than his own family perish. , as long as you have the Border Guard Legion in your hands, no matter who comes to power, it will give the Feisabrun family a face. Even if he is gone, the Feisabrun family can still be interdependent with the Border Guard Legion."
"From this point, it can be seen that the Grand Duke Fesabrun has long lost his ambition. Although the Kingdom of Iberia was established because of his support, the current Kingdom of Iberia is simply lingering. Feisabrun The Grand Duke is well aware that his departure means that he has given up his efforts to save the Iberian Kingdom."
"Let's take a look at the Frontier Defense Corps. It was originally formed to resist the barbarian cavalry on the northeast prairie, but I didn't expect that the strength of the Frontier Defense Corps would increase so quickly after Grand Duke Fesabrunn became the commander of the army. They added a border province to the empire. Therefore, the biggest enemy of the border guards is still the Caoman tribe on the northeast prairie.
Regardless of the 78,000 elite soldiers in the Border Guard Corps, in fact they need at least half of their strength to guard against the invasion of grass barbarians. The Grand Duke of Fesabrun used to be able to suppress the opposition forces in the Kingdom of Iberia with three or four border ranger regiments. But after our family wiped out the second prince's 100,000 troops in the first battle, Grand Duke Feisabrun realized that it would be difficult for us to deal with the four rising families in the North with this little force in his hands. "
"Ordering 100,000 sets of standard equipment from our family is actually an olive branch offered to us by Princess Sylvia on behalf of the Border Guard Corps and the Feisabrun family. It means that the Feisabrun family has no intention of being our enemy. It was a test to see if our family has the strength. We accepted this deal, which also means that we do not regard the Feisabrun family as an enemy, and our family does not care that the 100,000 sets of standard equipment will be given to How much combat power has been increased by the Border Guard Corps.
Many people in our family are worried that the 100,000 sets of standard equipment will greatly increase the combat power of the border guards. Once they become our enemies, it is tantamount to asking for trouble. In fact, they are too lacking in self-confidence or afraid of the Grassland of the Grand Duke of Feisabrun The prestige of the military god. Schwarder, let me ask you, if our family were to face off against the entire Frontier Corps now, do you think we would be defeated? "
"Impossible. With the strength of our family's armed forces, the border guards have almost no chance of winning against us. Regardless of the quality and equipment of the soldiers, we can crush the border guards." Schwader is very confident in the family's armed forces.
"Then, if the border guards are equipped with the standard equipment they purchased, can they draw with us or defeat our family's armed forces?" Lorist asked again.
This time, Shi Huade thought for a long time, and finally shook his head: "They still have no chance of winning. Our family's logistics support is much better than theirs. Even if we don't use strategies, we will fight steadily and steadily, even if they use ingenuity to win a few battles." , but the final outcome will still fail... But my lord, if they do this, they will cause great damage to our family's armed forces. I think this transaction is an act of capitalizing on the enemy, which is what it means... "
Lorist nodded: "Schward, you are very thoughtful, the teacher is very pleased, but there is one thing you have to remember, once you go to the battlefield, you must regard the soldiers under you as numbers. The commander must keep a calm judgment on the situation on the battlefield at all times, and not let his sympathy and anger affect his mind. How to defeat the enemy and how to avoid his own casualties is a consideration for a commander, but as long as the battle starts, casualties cannot It is too heavy to change the original intention, because the failure to win the war means that the casualty price you pay is useless, the choice must be decisive, only victory can make the sacrifice more valuable... "
"What you said just now makes sense. These 100,000 sets of standard equipment can indeed increase the combat power of the border guards. But those of you who are worried have forgotten the most important point. This is a deal. You have to look at the Philippine What kind of price did the Sabrun family and the Border Guard Corps pay for the 100,000 sets of standard equipment? For our family, the 100,000 sets of standard equipment are only the output of the weapon production base for a year and a half, but we can get Nearly two million cattle and sheep.
Two million cattle and sheep are equivalent to two million-level warcraft waves. The Fisabrun family and the Border Guards simply couldn't afford it. Donghuang Province and Muyeyuan Province, two major animal husbandry provinces, produce a maximum of 500,000 head of cattle and sheep a year, but they cannot hand over all of them to us, because they still have to sell these cattle and sheep in exchange for grain, cloth, salt, etc. living supplies. And I signed a five-year agreement with them. During these five years, they need to deliver 400,000 cattle and sheep to our family every year. We only need to deliver them the standard equipment of two border ranger regiments per year, 20,000 sets. up.
Therefore, the Fesabrun family and the Border Guard Corps set their minds on the grass barbarian tribes in the northeast prairie, planning to plunder the cattle and sheep of these grass barbarian tribes. But are those savage tribes easy to provoke? Those with more than 100,000 livestock are tribes with tens of thousands of people, and all the people are soldiers. Even wearing the standard equipment traded by our family does not mean that all the soldiers of the Border Guard Corps are invulnerable, they will also suffer casualties and equipment wear and tear. I estimate that five years from now, the Border Guard Corps may still need 20,000 to 30,000 sets of standard equipment...
In a sense, the signing of this transaction agreement is equivalent to five years of work for our family by the Feisabrun family and the border guards, and they will also live and die with the grass barbarian tribes on the northeast prairie Big Enmity. Even if they got all the standard equipment five years later and their combat power greatly increased, they could still only focus on preventing the grass barbarian tribe from retaliation. And our family, after five years of development, is it possible to have the same strength as now? At that time, I'm afraid that you yourself will not pay attention to the Border Guard Corps. "
"Five years?" Shi Huade touched his head, and smiled embarrassedly: "Teacher, I really forgot this, time is also the key..."
After rethinking for a long time, Schwader's eyes lit up: "Teacher, in fact, as long as they sign this agreement, it means that within five years, the Feisabrun family and the Border Guards can only get along with us friendly, and they will never get along with us again." They are enemies. Because they have to use the most elite troops and well-equipped soldiers to rob cattle and sheep on the prairie. Instead, they want to curry favor with us in the past five years. The initiative of standard equipment... "
"That's right, that's the reason, so the concerns of those in the family who only see what is in front of them are all for nothing..." Lorist smiled and picked up the teacup.
Pat rushed to Lorist with a dusty family soldier: "My lord, the sailor battalion urgently reported that three training ships were attacked by whales when they went out to sea for training, two of them capsized, and the sailors suffered heavy losses. At present, more than 370 people are missing and their whereabouts are unknown..."
"What did you say?" Lorist was shocked, stood up with a bang, and knocked over the teacup and teapot on the table on the spot.
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Lorist set off overnight with the guard battalion, and arrived at the Niujiaowan sailor battalion in the afternoon of the next day.
The golden knight Farea was ashamed: "My lord, I am incompetent. I failed your trust and caused the sailors to suffer such heavy losses..."
Lorist patted him on the shoulder: "This is none of your business. You have put in a lot of effort to build the sailor battalion. You are not on board the three training ships this time. The unexpected incident is beyond your control. Yes. Get something for me and the guards to fill our stomachs. We haven’t eaten any hot food since yesterday afternoon... "
What happened was like this. In mid-October, the three training ships were delivered to the sailor battalion successively. At the beginning, everyone just wandered around Niujiao Bay to get familiar with the water conditions and the performance of the ships. But after ten days in a row, everyone was a little tired, so they decided to drive out to the bay to have a look. In this way, every group of sailors on board drove farther and farther. Until three days ago, a small island was discovered in the sea a hundred miles away from Niujiao Bay, but there were many whales playing around the small island.
This small island does not exist on the map, which means that the island is not big and was ignored by the magicians who drew the map, so the location was not marked on the handed down map. So these sailors named Whale Island according to the whales playing around the island.
Farea also visited Whale Island on a training ship two days ago. At that time, he also rejected the request of the sailors to go to the island to see it. The main reason was that there were too many whales around the small island. something will happen. But I didn't expect that a group of sailors who went out to sea for training yesterday couldn't help being curious and wanted to go to the island to have fun. Three training ships, each with 200 people, a total of 600 sailors drove the three training ships to Jingdao happily. .
On the sea less than ten miles away from Whale Island, the two training boats driving in front were attacked by several whales. The largest whale was comparable to the size of the training boat. Jumping and colliding, the huge whale body overwhelmed it on the spot. ship, and another ship was knocked over. The sailors on the training ship that fell behind were all terrified, and hurriedly sailed and turned the rudder to avoid it far away. When we reached a safe distance and lowered the small lifeboat to rescue them, only 23 people were rescued. Among the 400 sailors on the two training ships ahead, 377 were missing and their whereabouts are unknown...
Farea’s voice was very low. Everyone here understood what it meant to be attacked and disappeared at sea. Only a very few lucky ones might still be favored by fate and have a chance to be rescued, but most of them had already left. out of this world.
"Whales are not monsters, why would they attack our training ship?" asked El, the commander of the guard battalion.
"I don't know why." Farea shook his head: "After yesterday's incident, I went to the shipyard and asked some old boatmen and some old fishermen. According to them, it is very likely that the whale The waters near the island are where the whales feed their offspring, so our training boats violated their territory and were attacked by them."
"The morale in the sailor battalion is very low because of yesterday's incident. My lord, I want to punish the captain and sailors of the only training ship that came back yesterday. It was their curiosity and recklessness that caused this tragic incident... "
"If you formally order that the sailors are not allowed to approach the small island, I have no objection to you punishing those who disobeyed the order." Lorist said.
Farea thought for a while: "No, I didn't order them not to approach Whale Island..."
"Forget it. Sailors must emphasize discipline on board, but it is not a bad thing to maintain strong curiosity and a strong spirit of exploration. Although such a tragedy happened when the sailor battalion was first built, it does not stop our family from going The determination of the ocean. Whale Island is the territory of whales. Even the sea is dominated by the fleet of our Norton family!
Farea, please appease the sailor battalion first, I will let the shipyard start building the whaling ship immediately, and when our family’s whaling ship goes to sea next spring, we will turn the whale’s territory into a whale’s Jedi... ” Luo Rist slapped the table with resentment.
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